You will be picked up from your hotel by the tour guide and vehicle at the specified time.

First visit point is Priene.

PRIENE ANCIENT CITY: Priene is one of the important ancient cities established on the southern slope of Samsun Mountain, 15 km southwest of Söke district. Being built on a steep rock at an altitude of 370 m. provided an advantage in resisting attacks. In addition, being on a high place allows the city to be seen from different directions. The first information about Priene, which is considered to be a member of the Ionian League like Miletos, is found in ancient sources in the mid-7th century BC. The most important structures of the city include the Temple of Demeter, the Temple of Athena, the theater, the agora, the Temple of Zeus, the bouleuterion, the Upper Gymnasium, the Lower Gymnasium, the Egyptian Temple, the house of Alexander the Great, the Byzantine church, the necropolis and residential areas. The theater, which has a capacity of 5000 people, was built in 350 BC. In front of the temple built for the goddess Athena in the most dominant place of the city, there was a statue of Athena made of gold and ivory. Only a part of the temple altar is still standing today. After the ancient city of Priene, our stop is the ancient city of Miletus, which is 30 minutes away.

MILETUS ANCIENT CITY: The first settlement foundation ruins of the ancient city and the beginning of its history cannot be examined individually but together with the Ionian region. The ancient city of Miletus, known as the region where ancient foundations indicate traces of the Neolithic period, is known to have been the first settlement in Miletus starting in the mid-2000s BC with the existence of a Mycenaean colony. Miletus was re-established by the Ionians led by Nekus, the son of the King of Athens, Kodros. It is one of the most important city ports of the 12 cities of Ionia. It has four ports. It experienced its brightest period in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. It became very rich thanks to its colonies in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, especially after 650 BC. It fell into the hands of the Persians in 546 BC. Later, it became an independent city during the Roman period. Miletus, which was also an important center during the Early Christian period, shrank in size and came under Seljuk rule in the 13th century, and then under Ottoman rule. It is known that Miletus has been inhabited since the Stone Age. However, there is no archaeological evidence for Stone Age inhabitants on Miletus and the surrounding islands, and this is attributed to the rise of the waters of the Aegean Sea and the change of the mouth of the Büyük Menderes several times. According to information obtained from archaeological research, Miletus was first a settlement of those who lived in the Neolithic Age in 3500-3000 BC.

After our visit, we stop for lunch at a local restaurant.

After lunch, we continue our tour to the Temple of Apollo in Didim.

TEMPLE OF APOLLO: Didyma is an ancient Greek sanctuary located on the Ionian coast. This site contains the Temple of Apollo. Next to Delphi, Didyma is the most famous oracle center of the Hellenic world. It was first mentioned in Homer's Hymn to Apollo. Its foundation is pre-literacy, even before the Hellenic colonization of Ionia. Apollo was the chief god of the Didyma sanctuary, also called Didymaion. Didymaion was well known in antiquity for its famous oracle center. This oracle center of Apollo was, and still is, located inside one of the largest Apollo temples in the world. The ruins of this Hellenistic temple are one of the best preserved temples of classical antiquity. In addition to this temple, there were other structures recently rediscovered within the sanctuary; two of these are a Greek theater and the foundations of the Hellenistic Artemis temple mentioned above. The day ends with a visit to the Temple of Apollo. We set off to return to our hotel.